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THE DWELLING-PLACE by HENRY VAUGHAN

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First Line: WHAT HAPPY, SECRET FOUNTAIN
Last Line: MY GOD, I MEAN MY SINFUL HEART.

What happy, secret fountain,
Fair shade, or mountain,
Whose undiscovered virgin glory
Boasts it this day, though not in story,
Was then thy dwelling? did some cloud
Fixed to a tent, descend and shroud
My distressed Lord? or did a star
Beckoned by thee, though high and far,
In sparkling smiles haste gladly down
To lodge light, and increase her own?
My dear, dear God! I do not know
What lodged thee then, nor where, nor how;
But I am sure, thou dost now come
Oft to a narrow, homely room,
Where thou too hast but the least part,
My God, I mean @3my sinful heart@1.



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